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Jen Matthews
@jenwritesagain.bsky.social
Often reading - sometimes writing.

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“Because survival is insufficient.” 💙 #amreading
November 6, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Profound dignity throughout the poems in “In Her Jaws”, lighting a way through trauma towards persistence & survival. Loving, too, learning about women I hadn’t known of before liked Caroline Herschel and Dora Richter #amreading @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Stunning poem by Anne Tannam 💙
#amreading
October 18, 2025 at 11:02 AM
“Are you well?
Such a useless question.”

Binging Anne Tannam this morning and have had two lovely cries already by page 25.
October 4, 2025 at 11:27 AM
This poem. 🐙
September 27, 2025 at 9:52 AM
@the4facedliar.bsky.social is running a Creative Non Fiction competition- deadline 30 June. More about our judge here! www.the4facedliar.com/submissions

#cnf #writingcommunity #creativenonfiction
June 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This. Story. Subtle, precise, and all the feels at once. @stingingfly.bsky.social 💙
June 20, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Opportunities for #poetry , #creativenonfiction #shortstories and #flashfiction . Deadline end of June! Please share x
June 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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February 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
“You smell of codfish and old rain. Homesick, the salt / weeps in the salt-cellars.”

I mean … I feel as strongly about this line alone as I do about all of One Art. Give me process every time 💘
January 25, 2025 at 8:59 PM
“I will be correct or bust.” Last year’s reading project was all of Bishop’s poetry. My favourite was Selected Unpublished section including scans of poems-in-progress. They have wilder edges than their perfect/published siblings & feel more intimate for it. Heart totally broke in half with Keaton.
January 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM